According to Article 5 of the UEFA Rules Book, related to the integrity of “competition/multi-club property”, a club of March 1, 2025 is required to have met the necessary requirements to prove that they are not “simultaneously involved in any competition capacity in management, administration and/or sporting performance of more than one club participating in a UEFA club”.
In previous clubs, they sought to disinfect the bets of the main shareholders, with the objective of complying with UEFA regulations.
For example, the city group, Ineos, Red Bull Group and the owner of Nottingham Forest Evangelos Marinakis have adapted their shareholders in clubs according to ensuring that their teams can compete in the same European competitions.
Last year, Ineos, owner of Manchester United, put their actions at French Club Nice in a blind confidence to ensure that the two clubs can compete in the Europa League last season.
Ineos made a similar move earlier this season, putting its property from the Swiss club Lausanne-Sport on blind confidence before a possible conflict in the 2025-26 campaign.
UEFA rules on March 1 are clear – and the clubs sought to comply with regulations and cutting points. A model for the following palace is in force.
However, the palace is understood as it made clear that the textor’s position means that it cannot be applied by the club to put its actions in blind confidence, due to the lack of legal authority, unlike previous precedents, where a single entity has several clubs.
The parish, as well documented, effectively maintains the decisive vote on the palace with the support of Harris and Blitzer, so that existing shareholders’ agreements would need to be changed to apply a blind confidence scenario – which is not within the club’s power and violates the property’s property rights.
There is also a feeling that the chain of events that left the palace’s position in European football at risk were unforeseen and is a factor for why they did not meet the deadline for restructuring ownership.
The Palace faced Millwall in the fifth round of FA Cup on March 1. Since then, they have beat Champions League Clubs Aston Villa and Manchester City, on their way to winning the trophy.
The French team Strasbourg conceded a 90-minute goal on the last day of the season to deliver Lyon the end of the European Conference League before Paris St-Germain later won the France Cup to raise Lyon to the Europa League.
If UEFA govern that Lyon and Palace cannot compete in the Europa League, the regulations say the French team will play in the competition because of their league end.
In this scenario, the palace could play in the European Conference League, but there is still an additional complication that the Danish club Brondby, who qualified for the Conference League, belongs to Harris and Blitzer.
After losing the deadline, the Palace expressed to UEFA that they are prepared to take immediate action to meet their requirements.
Sources with knowledge of the situation told BBC Sport that one of these measures includes the textor’s resignation as director of Palace, which would mean that he will have no influence on any capacity.
